In the streaming era, the term ‘’all these new rappers sound the same’’ is a common critique used to describe the state of hip-hop by people who don’t like the more recent acts. Granted, I think people overexaggerate with the current state of hip-hop in general. But, I think there’s truth in everything.
You were right on point again. I also feel with many songs being shorter than 2 and a half minutes these days, many rappers don't feel the need to truly structure a song. With it usually birthing from a TikTok snippet, which you also alluded to, they know people really only care about a certain part of the song. At the same time, not every song needs to be over 3 minutes because that may show how truly undeveloped it was in the first place. At the end of the day, it just comes down to artists making music for the masses and want to (or, realistically, are told to) make their music as accessible as possible.
You were right on point again. I also feel with many songs being shorter than 2 and a half minutes these days, many rappers don't feel the need to truly structure a song. With it usually birthing from a TikTok snippet, which you also alluded to, they know people really only care about a certain part of the song. At the same time, not every song needs to be over 3 minutes because that may show how truly undeveloped it was in the first place. At the end of the day, it just comes down to artists making music for the masses and want to (or, realistically, are told to) make their music as accessible as possible.